‘Put a rubber band on your phone’: I asked experts how to reduce screen time – here’s what they said

If you want to doomscroll less this year, try these realistic tips from screen-time coaches ...

1961 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible For Sale After Meticulous Restoration

This 1961 Chevrolet Corvette comes in a fresh coat of black with silver coves, a new engine, and redone interior. It's a ...

NYC Phone Ban Reveals Students Can’t Read Analog Clocks

As New York City implements a school phone ban, a surprising trend has emerged: many students struggle to read analog clocks.

With phones banned, some students realise they don’t remember how to read analog clocks in school

Some New York City schools banned phones to improve focus, but the move revealed a new issue. Many students have forgotten ...
Hackaday

Tick, Tock, Train Station Clock

We’ve seen a few H-bridge circuits around these parts before, and here’s another application. This time we have an Old Train ...

If someone's always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude?

If someone's always late, is it time blindness, or are they just being rude? - If someone is always late, is it time blindness, or are they just rude ...

New York teachers stunned to learn some students can’t read time on analogue clocks after phone ban comes into play

New York City teachers say the state’s recently implemented cell phone ban in schools has showed that numerous students no ...

When phones disappear, time telling disappears too: How NYC classrooms exposed an unexpected skills gap

New York City’s school smartphone ban has improved focus and movement in classrooms but revealed an unexpected skills gap: many students cannot read analogue clocks. Teachers across the city say ...

'Cognitive Downgrade' — New York's Smartphone Ban in Schools Raises Massive Problem

New York's school smartphone ban is exposing a hidden cognitive problem among students, while Australia's social media ...

School phone ban in NYC is exposing a major skill gap

As of a June 2025 EdWeek tracker, New York is one of 21 states, as well as Washington D.C., that have banned smartphones ...
Gothamist

NYC phone ban reveals some students can't read clocks

Tiana Millen, an assistant principal at Cardozo High School in Queens, said this year’s ban on smartphones revealed that many ...
IEEE

Have Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) Really Learned to Tell the Time on Analog Clocks?

Multimodal Large Language Models which can answer complex questions on an image struggle to tell the time on analog clocks. Reading the time on an analog clock requires identifying the hands, their ...